The aircraft is leased with UU cockpit crews for the Umroh Operation between the end of March and the end of June. There are no crew training purposes involved. The aircraft will just fly a number of CGKJED roundtrips per week to reinforce Garuda's own 12 weekly B744 roundtrips on that route during this busy period.

Garuda will take delivery of 4 B77Ws this year, the first two in June, and then one each in September and October. The first two aircraft will be used for twice daily CGKJED service, although they will redeploy to Japan for about a month in August - September. Frames 3 and 4 will operate 6 weekly nonstop CGKLGW services from the end of October onwards.